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Founder of @osint_mindset / soxoj.com / @soxoj
OSINTerdam #8 today! 🚀
Tactical OSINT Analyst will present a talk titled “Using AI with Facial Recognition”
He is a professional OSINT trainer, founder of Tactical Systems Academy, the brain behind some fantastic tools and research on facial recognition, and a multiple-time winner of Trace Labs CTFs.
The meetup promises to be incredibly cool! 😎
👉Join us!
#community
⚠️ I am looking for OSINT investigators interested in using SL Crimewall for their daily tasks.
🤝Just DM me!
#community #crimewall #sociallinks
Twitter Tools
View username, display name and bio history of any Twitter user.
twitter.lolarchiver.com
Partly free. Works well, but not always accurately. Use in combination with other similar tools (like UserSearch etc).
Creator twitter.com/lol_archiver
OSINTerdam #8 is coming!
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- Eventbrite (main platform, email notifications)
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- LinkedIn (detailed announcements and networking)
- X (Twitter), some updates
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🔥 A new tool to uncover website ownership and investigate information campaigns using various technical indicators and searching for similar content 🔍
👉 https://informationlaundromat.com/
Functionality:
🔸 Search by text snippets and get a list of websites that post the same content, through a few search engines
🔸 Compare and search similar websites by many technical indicators (using DNS, Shodan, Urlscan, metatags, links, IDs, and classes of HTML elements) to reveal hidden connections and common ownership
🔸 Use in-group match for a list of your links
🔸 Use the Domain Forensics Comparison Corpus
Learn more about the need for detecting copied content in OSINT in my SOWEL encyclopedia: https://sowel.soxoj.com/copying-content
#community #sowel
Wednesday Updates #1, our weekly newsletter is out now.
Highlights: 7 Interesting blogs, 7 awesome videos, 9 new tools, 5 job openings, one free eBook and many more.
https://osintambition.substack.com/p/wednesday-updates-1
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✅ ISS talk -- done!
Thank you to the participants for attending and for the positive feedback! Although I cannot publish the presentation, I can share the very methodology I mentioned. It is publicly available here: https://sowel.soxoj.com
#iss #sowel #community
🤖 Botnadzor.com - a platform to detect bots in VK.com by account, post, or group. API and browser extensions are available.
❓ The project is designed to disclose the scale of hidden propaganda, misinformation publicly, and lies coming from seemingly real profiles of existing people. The photos on these profiles are stolen from dating sites or other social networks.
👉 Link: https://botnadzor.org/
👉 How to detect botnets and artificial content: https://sowel.soxoj.com/artificial-content-botnets
#botnet #sowel
Pompompurin and BreachForums
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Something more than a year has passed since Pompompurin was detained by the FBI. I did this investigation on him when it happened, and now after some time, I’ve decided to make it public here.
The goal of the investigation was simple, I just wanted to find who pompompurin was, how he became the creator of BF (BreachForums) and how he ended up detained (bad OPSEC as usual :)). Keep in mind that everything you are about to see is Open Source.
🧐 Exploring the depth of web search, Fravia introduced techniques like Yo-Yo, Synecdochical, and Epanaleptical to master the art of finding quality info online.
📚 Yo-Yo combats spam by skipping to mid-results, Synecdochical refines queries for precise info, and Epanaleptical uses repetition to filter and refine results, improving the relevance of web searches.
🔥 These methods empower searchers to cut through the noise of the internet efficiently.
Read more in the book: https://fravia.soxoj.com/
#community
🤔The Master of Search Art, philosopher, and reverse engineer—who am I referring to?
☝️This individual inspired me to become who I am today. He taught the art of Internet searching when Google was just emerging!
🌹He passed away on this day several years ago, yet his legacy remains invaluable, albeit a bit forgotten.
👉That’s why I decided to prepare and publish soon a free e-book featuring his best writings.
❓Curious to learn more? First, guess and write in the comments whom I'm talking about!👇
#community
Our speakers are back in Madrid for one of the biggest OSINT conferences — Osintomático Conference 2024! 🦊🦊
The following talks will be presented as early as mid-May:
Gospodin Sobaka & Soxoj — Gold Digger: mining valuable information out of inconveniently formatted data
Dukera — GEWEL: A structural approach to GEOINT
There will be no streaming, as well as no recording, but we will post the presentations!
We wish our guys a successful talk! 🧡
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OSINTerdam #7 was successful
#realinside #community
✍️ My new Substack article has been published!
OSINT Methodology: How to Investigate Illegal Content in Telegram Chats
Tips for cybercrime investigators
#tools #sociallinks #telegram
Are you ready for an exclusive OSINT training in Amsterdam? 😉
Join OSINTerdam meetup #8 for an insightful presentation by Jörn Weber, a seasoned OSINT investigator and managing director of corma GmbH.
Title: Elevating OSINT Investigations: The Case for Professional Tools
Subtitle: From Commodore 64 to Cutting-Edge OSINT
The talk will delve into the essential tools and techniques that elevate OSINT investigations 🕵♂️ to a professional standard. Jörn Weber will argue against the typical "free" OSINT culture, demonstrating that professional equipment is crucial for delivering high-quality results that meet client expectations. 🤝
Attendees will learn about the best-in-class software, hardware, and methodologies that save time and enhance investigative outcomes. This presentation is a must-attend for anyone serious about advancing their OSINT capabilities. 🚀
🎙 About the Speaker: Jörn Weber is an investigator, trainer, and managing director of corma GmbH. Before his time at corma, he worked as a police officer in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany, for nearly 20 years. He investigated cases of homicide, fraud, white-collar crime, and cybercrime, and ended his service as a Detective Chief Inspector (Kriminalhauptkommissar).
Today, Jörn Weber and his team primarily support the security departments of companies and the brand protection officers of national and international clients. The clientele of corma GmbH also includes banks, insurance companies, and law firms. Over the years, corma GmbH has shifted its focus to successfully conducting internet investigations, including person searches, company searches, darknet investigations, and investigative due diligence.
In addition to his investigative work, Jörn Weber regularly conducts training on Maltego, Social Links, and internet investigations. These training sessions ensure a high level of practical relevance through the integration of established workflows and the daily use of research solutions like Maltego and Social Links. Participants include German and international police authorities, corporate security departments, investigative journalists, intelligence services, and the military.
Fun Fact: Join us in this presentation to uncover how early experiences with the C64 are linked with the pioneering German police website and how that connects to leaked data. 😉
OSINT in Anti-Drug Trafficking Investigations: a webinar!
👉 Free registration here
My team will present various case studies for LEA on Crimewall this Thursday at 1 PM CET:
🔸 Historical data on DarkNet market activity within a macroregion
🔹 In-depth social graph of a precursor broker
🔸 NLP-assisted digital profiling in Telegram
and others.
🕵♀️ Ivan Kravtsov, as always, conducted amazing research to translate impressive real-life examples into the language of investigations.
❗ If you are unable to attend this webinar, subscribe to our blog to receive notifications well in advance. And DM me to get some materials 😉
#sociallinks
🚀 The OSINT Industries API has been featured in Social Links latest article on the top 10 OSINT and Open Data APIs for 2024! 🌐🔍
Our OSINT Industries API empowers organisations with advanced intelligence capabilities, including:
🔎 Comprehensive OSINT data from hundreds of sources
🛡️ Real-time intelligence with 100% accuracy
🔧 Seamless integration with existing intelligence platforms
Discover how our innovative solutions enhance intelligence platforms and streamline workflows. 💡
We are thrilled to be featured alongside amazing intelligence tools such as Spokeo, Have I Been Pwned, BTC.com, Picarta, Shodan, Censys, and more…
📲 Request API Access: https://www.osint.industries/offerings/api-access
📖 Read the article: https://blog.sociallinks.io/top-10-osint-and-open-data-apis-for-2024/#oi
Tweet: https://x.com/OSINTindustries/status/1804589622153859394
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7210355418244464640/?actorCompanyId=98334708
A quick update on X / Twitter, they have just made an accounts Likes Private, which is annoying and doesn't help us much but don't worry as there are always new OSINT tools & techniques being made available to help locate other useful intelligence
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How to attract the attention of passersby at the Intelligence Support Systems conference? Put a Flipper Zero box on your stand. It can even be an empty one!
#iss #realinside
Quite often, we can forget the simple rules of evaluating sources and the quality of information in our research.
Discover Fravia’s Golden Rules of a Seeker, 7 Questions to Evaluate Information, and Prof. Sielaff’s Lessons on Info Sources to master your research skills!
Read 👉 http://fravia.soxoj.com 📗
#community #fravia
Great article on basic OSINT skills 📚 to start with, with detailed explanations from my dear SL CoE guys, Costanza and Polina!
👇Must read! 👇
- https://pirascostanza.substack.com/p/skillset-for-osint-analysts-to-get
- https://aleksandrovapolina.substack.com/p/skillset-for-osint-analysts-to-get
#sociallinks #osintmindset
I will give a talk Deanonymizing Darknet Forums with OSINT Tools on ISS World Europe which will be held in Prague next week: https://www.issworldtraining.com/iss_europe/
The track is: Social Network Monitoring, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics Product Training
Also, my colleague will present a talk Enhancing Crisis Response through Data Fusion: Insights for State Agencies which will be very insightful.
There will be no recordings, come to listen alive!
#sociallinks #talks
Thank you to everyone who attended our Osintomatico talk! Link to our tools and guides: https://github.com/stars/soxoj/lists/osintomatico-2024-talk
#osintomatico
A small #geoint task for those who live in Madrid and still dont have ticket to Osintomatico! 😉
Reply to the tweet with valid coords and get a 100% discount for the ticket: https://twitter.com/Sox0j/status/1791098867238187027
And come to listen to OSINT mindset talks, of course! 🔍
#community
📚 Meet the e-book with selected writings of Fravia: a philosopher, a reverse engineer, and a master of search.
https://soxoj.substack.com/p/book-fravia-the-art-of-searching
A medievalist and informatician-linguist, shifted from the cracking topic to search lessons. He pioneered internet search 25 years ago; he explored propaganda a decade before Bellingcat began. I'd like to rediscover it for OSINT specialists and a wide audience.
Enjoy reading!
#community
Top SOCMINT tools to investigate and to deanonymize GitHub accounts:
- GitFive from mxrch
- Octosuite from rly0heart (Bellingcat)
- Gitcolombo from soxoj
- Zen from s0md3v
- Map of GitHub from anvaka
- cuncis/leveraging-github-for-open-source-intelligence-osint-tools-and-techniques-f63fb2a1066">Dorks and secret search for cybersec
👉 Read more: https://sowel.soxoj.com/check-commits
#github #community
OSINTerdam #7 was fantastic!
Impressive talks, charismatic speakers and no less interesting and experienced participants: researchers, detectives, teachers, students... Nearly 40 people! 🫡
It was truly amazing to see so many familiar faces returning, engaging in lively discussions, sharing the OSINT experience, and fostering our community.
A special thanks to those who traveled from other countries to join us: UK, France, Belgium, Germany 🌍 Your trust means the world!
...and there was a cool afterparty in an atmospheric bar 😏
#osinterdam #community
How Unique and Traceable are Usernames?
Quite an interesting research (2011). The tool to estimate your username's uniqueness and check whether the two usernames are linkable is down, unfortunately. 🥺
#paper #username